At a time when everyone thought that the Great China and the DPRK would be completely settled in the future and go all out to restore the agricultural economy in various localities, and when the cabinet ministers were also discussing the need to reduce some troops and horses and prepare to devote all their energies to restoring the economy and people's livelihood in various localities, the navy and the maritime trade bloc both proposed to launch a large-scale offensive to take down the island of Taiwan and expel the Dutch entrenched on the island of Taiwan, but Xiao Tianjian expressed his opposition at a cabinet meeting.

On the issue of the abolition of the surplus army, Xiao Tianjian did not object, after so many years of fighting in the south and the north, the large and medium army has also swelled very much, after rough statistics, in the past few years, in order to strengthen the rule of the local army, continue to carry out conscription, coupled with the continuous subjugation of the chaotic army and the old department of the Ming Dynasty, even if the large army is fighting while cutting off the scattered and idle personnel and the old and weak soldiers, it has also made the large and medium army to the summer of the third year of Tianyuan, has reached an unprecedented number of nearly one million.

The army of one million may not be too much for future generations, but in this era, it is a terrifying number, in terms of the productivity of this era, even if the population under the jurisdiction of the Great Middle and Northern Dynasties has exceeded 100 million, but more than 100 people feed a soldier and hundreds of thousands of mules and horses, which is undoubtedly a very heavy burden for the newly established Great Middle Kingdom, not to mention that the Great Middle and Northern Dynasties are also in the stage of rejuvenating all kinds of waste, and there are too many places to spend money, and Xiao Tianjian is bent on building a strong navy as soon as possible. This navy is a purely money-burning army, and if a large number of land divisions are not eliminated, it will not be able to withstand such consumption in any case.

In addition, the soldiers are basically young and middle-aged laborers, and now the Dazhong and Korean dynasties are in ruins, and a large number of abandoned farmland needs to be re-cultivated, because agriculture in the early stage was seriously damaged due to natural disasters and wars, and a large number of ploughing cattle were killed, and farming needs to be more important to manpower, but so many young and strong people have been conscripted as soldiers, which is also very unfavorable to the future recovery of Dazhong and North Korea, so the abolition of land divisions in various places must be carried out as soon as possible.

Therefore, Xiao Tianjian also agreed with the disarmament plan proposed by the cabinet ministers, which was to dismantle the existing million-strong army by 30% or even half, and make it unarmored and return to the field.

However, the disarmament plan put forward by the cabinet ministers has been opposed by the military department, and their reasons are also very good, and now that the various places have just been pacified, there are still many remnants of the Ming Dynasty who are about to try to restore the country, and there are still Li Zicheng's remnants in the northwest who have not yet been pacified, and among these large and medium-sized generals, many of them were born and died for the Great and Chinese Dynasty, and now they have just been established not long ago, and they will be driven home, and once such a large number of soldiers and generals are not well placed, they will become a factor of instability. This has led to the re-erosion of the situation that had just calmed down a little.

Moreover, Yongli has now fled into Burma, and there are still Jiannu and Mongols in the north that have not been resolved, and the next step will definitely be to move troops in the north, so it is not appropriate to reduce the land division in large numbers at the moment.

The attitude towards the military shows the serious differences and contradictions between the civilian and military forces, which is a game, and Xiao Tianjian is undoubtedly the arbiter of this game between the civil and military forces.

In this regard, Xiao Tianjian thought about it again and again, and discussed with the cabinet and the military department many times, but in the end Xiao Tianjian still issued an order to carry out a large-scale reorganization of the armies in various places, but for the reduction of the number of soldiers and horses, the method of reducing and dismantling in batches was adopted.

Of course, this disarmament is not simply to dismiss these soldiers and go home to work in agriculture and pull them down; Xiao Tianjian asked for generous treatment for the dismissal of soldiers, especially for those soldiers who have made meritorious contributions, and to give them severance pay in varying quantities according to their different ranks.

In addition, after the dismissal of these soldiers, they must return to their places of origin for resettlement, and the local government must make proper arrangements for them, and they must not be allowed to fall into a situation of starvation as soon as they return home.

Fortunately, after this great change in China, the original land annexed by the relatives of the Ming Emperor and some relatives and magnates has now been basically nationalized, and these lands can be arranged in addition to the original large number of landless and displaced people, there are still a lot of surpluses, so after the dismissal of the scattered soldiers will return to their hometowns, according to the requirements of the imperial court, each person can obtain a different number of fields according to the thickness of the fields, as the basis for their future support, and the imperial court for these dismissed soldiers and generals who returned to their hometowns, Special preferential treatment was also given to them for two years to reduce as much as possible the instability caused by the return of these soldiers to their hometowns.

In addition, among the large and medium army, there are a large number of personnel with special circumstances, that is, the enemy soldiers captured over the years, because they are worried that these prisoners will become bandits once they are dismissed, so these prisoners are also mostly arranged as auxiliaries to be guarded and used by the army.

Xiao Tianjian put forward an idea of establishing a construction corps, transferring these prisoners to some border areas, and allowing them to bring their families with them to these remote places for arrangement, management, and farming.

Because of natural disasters and wars in the north, many places in the original border areas have become barren land again, and the utilization rate of land is far less dense than that of later generations, so there is still a large amount of wasteland for farming, but since it is a remote place, the living conditions must be relatively poor, and ordinary people are not willing to settle in these places easily, only through strong policies, some prisoners will be sent to these places for resettlement first, and brought to these remote places after various living conditions are improved. Only then can we introduce various preferential policies to attract people from the interior to immigrate, and this method is also a good way to develop remote areas.

After Xiao Tianjian put forward this idea, he immediately received the support of both the civil and military sides, so in the second half of the third year of Tianyuan, the Dazhong Army began formal disarmament.

Batches of prisoners began to be dragged to remote areas in various places, and some old, weak and disabled soldiers also began to gradually return to their hometowns to accept resettlement after receiving severance pay.

But as a dismissed personnel, those in the army who graduated from the martial arts hall in various places, but Xiao Tianjian asked to keep all of them, these people are professional soldiers that Xiao Tianjian has cultivated with great difficulty, different from the soldiers recruited by general, each of them has received rigorous training, and they are very loyal to Dazhongchao and Xiao Tianjian, and they are also very brave on the battlefield.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of pacification and disarmament in the south, Xiao Tianjian once again carried out a structural readjustment of the Dazhong Army, reorganized the armies in various parts of the Dazhong and DPRK regions, and reorganized the armies in accordance with the original Fifth Five-Year Plan for the Dazhong Army.

In addition to the five standard combat battalions, each army division is also assigned to a division-affiliated scout company, a division-affiliated artillery battalion, a division-affiliated baggage battalion, and a division-affiliated engineer company.

A battalion has five combat companies, one scout squad, one battalion artillery company, and so on, so that if a reorganized division is fully equipped, the strength will reach about 10,000 people.

In addition, in addition to the combat units at the division level, an independent combat unit at the regimental level should be set up, and at the same time as some units should be dismantled, the remaining personnel should be used to form independent cavalry regiments, independent engineer regiments, independent artillery regiments, independent baggage regiments, and other independent arms units.

The surplus personnel will be eliminated, and the insufficient personnel will be supplemented with the elite soldiers left after the layoffs in other armies, so that they will all reach a state of full strength.

It turned out that the Dazhong Army was divided into four town armies plus a war zone, and there was also a direct guard army, and this time taking advantage of the opportunity of reorganization, Xiao Tianjian once again redivided the Dazhong Army.

The title of the town army was abolished, and the name of the town army was changed to a military region following the name of later generations, and the Northwest Military Region, the Central Plains Military Region, the Northern Military Region, the Southwest Military Region, the Southeast Military Region, the Liaodong Military Region and a Guards Garrison Military Region were established, a total of seven military regions.

The title of the commander of the military region has also been changed to the commander of the military region, and there is a chief of staff directly under the command of a military region, and two deputy commanders are set up to form the command system of the military region.

The Northwest Military Region is still mainly responsible for the defense of Shaanxi and Shanxi, and Yan Chongxi continues to be the commander.

The Northern Military Region is mainly responsible for the defense of Hebei, Xuanda, and Shandong, and Diao Zheng is the commander.

The Central Plains Military Region is mainly responsible for the defense of Henan, Huguang, and Nanzhili, and Liu Bao continues to be the commander.

The Southwest Military Region is mainly responsible for the defense of the three provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou, and the commander is Li Xuanzhu.

The Southeast Military Region is mainly responsible for the defense of Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangzhou, and is commanded by Shi Ran.

The Liaodong Military Region is mainly responsible for the military affairs in the Liaodong area, and the commander is Luo Li, but for the time being, Liaodong is still controlled by Jiannu, and the Liaodong Military Region is temporarily stationed in Shuntianfu and Yongping Mansion, which have been renamed Beiping Mansion, and a part of it is temporarily stationed in the Denglai area of Shandong.

There is also a Guards Garrison Military Region that is now in a special situation, temporarily stationed in Nanzhili, responsible for guarding the current Lindu Nanjing, and the Central Plains Military Region has crossed the defense area, but the Great China Dynasty has decided that the capital will be set in Beijing in the future, so in the future, the garrison military region will move to Beiping Mansion with the relocation of the capital, and the first commander will be Liu Yaoben.

As for the other generals of the Lu Division who followed Xiao Tianjian, they basically served as the deputy commanders of the military regions, but because Zhao Erdonkey had a gap with Li Xuanzhu, Xiao Tianjian transferred him to the Southeast Military Region as Shi Ran's deputy.

Originally, Xiao Tianjian wanted Luo Rucai to be the commander of the Southeast Military Region, which was a kind of reward for his support for Luo Rucai for so many years, but in the battle of Yunnan at the beginning of the year, Luo Rucai fell ill in front of the army and almost lost his life.

So Xiao Tianjian had no choice but to grant Luo Rucai as Dingnanbo, allowed him to withdraw from the army, and granted him a mansion in Nanjing City, as a place for his retirement after retirement, and was supported by the Great Zhongchao for life, as a reward for Luo Rucai's contributions over the years, Luo Rucai readily agreed, quit the army, and returned to Nanjing City to be honored.

However, not long after this major reorganization was decided, Yan Chongxi was also ill because of the recurrence of his old injury, and he could not continue to serve as the commander of the Northwest Military Region, so he also resigned and retired, Xiao Tianjian was grateful for Yan Chongxi's hard work and achievements, and allowed him to retire, awarded him the title of third-class Pingxi Gong, and gave him a mansion in Luoyang for his care, and the commander of the Northwest Military Region was succeeded by Li Lingfeng.

In addition to the land division, the navy was also reorganized, and the originally unified navy was divided into two parts, the northern naval division and the southern naval division, bounded by the mouth of the Yangtze River in Songjiang Prefecture.

Liu Jiang was appointed commander-in-chief of the navy, former admiral Xiao Rufeng was appointed commander of the Northern Naval Division, and Liu Yanming was appointed commander of the Southern Naval Division.

Originally, the navy ships and personnel were redivided, and a number of generals and ships were transferred to the Northern Fleet, which was originally very weak, greatly expanding the strength of the Northern Fleet.

The headquarters of the Northern Fleet was not selected in Dengzhou, which originally had better facilities, but was designated by Xiao Tianjian to be selected in Fushansuo, that is, Qingdao in later generations, and the stationing of the fleet was also selected in Fushansuo, Weihaiwei and Dengzhou, as the main berthing and supply base of the Northern Naval Division.

As for the headquarters of the Southern Maritime Division, it was located in Ningbo Prefecture, and the fleet was mainly anchored in Zhoushan, Wenzhou, Quanzhou, and Guangzhou.

The entire reorganization of the armed forces lasted until the end of the third year of the Yuan Dynasty, when all the armed forces completed the reorganization, downsizing, and changing of guards.

As for the fact that after the pacification of Hainan Island, the navy proposed to send troops to conscript Taiwan and drive away the Dutch who occupied Taiwan, Xiao Tianjian temporarily suppressed it, for no other reason, only because with the pacification of the southern provinces, the center of gravity of the next step of the Dazhong and North Korea's use of troops should be quickly tilted to the north, and the Jiannu entrenched in Liaodong should be resolved as soon as possible.

However, although the rebellion of Yongli in the southern provinces has been pacified, but the Yongli Emperor Zhu Youlang was not captured by the Dazhong army, when the Dazhong army captured Yunnan, Zhu Youlang saw that the situation was not good, and under some die-hard followers, he fled into Burma and was taken in by the king of Burma.

This incident made Xiao Tianjian very unhappy, and Zhu Youlang also fled to Myanmar in history, but he didn't expect that this time he was more than ten years earlier than history, but he still didn't catch Zhu Youlang, so Xiao Tianjian ordered Li Xuanzhu to send troops to Burma after pacifying Yunnan, put pressure on the king of Burma, and forced the king of Myanmar to hand over Zhu Youlang.

At the end of the third year of Tianyuan, Li Xuanzhu sent a lightly armed mountain division from Yunnan to enter Burma and began to use troops against the Burmese Dynasty, but the northern part of Myanmar is densely forested, and the climatic conditions and road conditions are quite harsh. Sooner or later, Myanmar's problems can be resolved.

At least this time, the Southwest Military Region entered Burma to fight, and it was necessary to include the entire northern Burma into the territory of the Great Middle Dynasty, and force the Burmese king to bow down to the Great Middle Dynasty, but for such a small-scale operation, he gave full authority to Li Xuanzhu to be responsible, and as for his energy, he began to put it in the north again.

(Today, I would like to thank General Mao Mao for his reward!) Hehe! ）